MacroSystem Arabesk 5 - Manual (Page 7)

7 Arabesk 5 User manual
DVD Button Based on their resolution, these buttons are best
suited for DVD video productions.
The selection of images and buttons is available in every pat-
tern selection. These products can therefore also be used with
other products or effects.
3. The Arabesk main menu
When Arabesk 5 is started, either the Assistant is started au-
tomatically, or you are taken directly to the main menu, if there
is already a disk layout available. The main menu will also be
opened when you prematurely cancel the previously started
Assistant.
With the available menu options here, you can freely design
your disk. You can also edit a design previously created with
the Assistant, add films or delete them.
The Arabesk 5 main menu is divided in the categories: Author-
ing, Info / Edit / Play and Miscellaneous.
The buttons are explained in the order in which they should
be used for the creation of a simple DVD/Blu-ray. You will also
find references to buttons which are mentioned later in the
text.
Creating a Blu-ray or a DVD
This chapter describes the functions of the main menu cat-
egory Authoring. This block is used for designing and creating
Blu-ray or DVD disks.
3.1 Assistant
You can either create a disk all by yourself, or you can choose
to get help from an Assistant. The “Assistant” guides you
through multiple menus to create a complete DVD or Blu-ray,
quickly and easily.
If you start Arabesk 5 and have not yet prepared a disk before
(in other words, if the Arabesk project is empty), the system
will first launch the Assistant. In the first information menu,
you can decide if you wish to use the Assistant‘s guidance or
directly select the manual design route.
After you have assembled your Arabesk project with the help
of the Assistant, you can burn it directly on a blank disk, or
make further changes. Should you want to change an already
made setting inside the Assistant, you will be able to go back
in the menu sequence.
You can use the Assistant after starting Arabesk, or start it
manually at a later stage. The interface is the identical (up to
the note found after the automatic start). Starting the Assistant
deletes any designs made before, as well as the films that have
been added to the project. You will be warned by the following
text message: “You will lose all previously arranged Arabesk
data if you change to Assistant Mode now. Continue?”
Before you start a project with the Assistant, you must first de-
cide whether you want to create a Blu-ray or a video DVD, just
as is the case when you start a project manually. You should
set this in the settings for Arabesk. To do this, you should
open the Settings menu and set the reference medium and the
destination format. Based on this setting, the Assistant will of-
fer you a selection of settings and will perform the correspond-
ing calculations. Please refer to the Miscellaneous chapter for
a detailed explanation of the Settings menu.
After the start of the Assistant, you get the following menu
order:
Select film: First, select a film. To do this, click onto the
“Select film” button and select a film from the project list. If
you wish to have a different name (other than the one already
given) for the project, you can now enter a new title.
Quality: Select a quality for the film. This is the quality that will
be burned on the disk for that particular project. You should
also select the data rate for the medium you want to burn. You
can choose between Low (14 Mbps), Normal (18 Mbps), High
(24 Mbps) and Very High (32 Mbps).
This is also where you can set the medium on which the movie
should be burned. The selection at your disposal depends on
the destination format you have set.
If you have set DVD Video as your destination format, the
possible choices are: CD (“Mini DVD”, 700 MB), single layer
DVD (4.7 GB) and dual layer DVD-DL (8.4 GB). The capacity for
each medium will be displayed.
If you have set Blu-ray as the destination format, you will also
be able to select Blu-ray 25 GB and Blu-ray 50 GB. Below the
selection is a display of the estimated capacity needed on the
medium for the movies in this project.